Courtesy: Frédéric de Bellaing Elsy Moufarrej has always taken the road of solidarity. A union activist from the outset of her career in radio and television, she played an integral role in forming the Union of Journalists in Lebanon (UJL) in 2019. “Journalists need support from their union because sometimes you are fighting against your government. You are fighting together to protect your rights,” Moufarrej told Media Action Plan. Leading up to the formation of UJL, Lebanon

Courtesy: Canva The Government of Canada have ordered the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to review recent steps to modernize the Broadcasting Act. On May 21st, the CRTC announced that foreign digital broadcasters with over $25 million in annual Canadian revenue will be forced to contribute 15% of that revenue to the creation of Canadian and indigenous content – an increase from the previous 5%. This new level of contribution would have created rou

Courtesy: Frédéric Moreau de Bellaing One of the most passionate press freedom advocates Unifor Canada has ever produced, Jennifer Moreau, now has a bigger voice on the international stage. Almost ten years after colleagues successfully urged her to run for a vacant seat on the International Federation of Journalists executive committee, Moreau has just been elected as Vice-President of IFJ. She was chosen as 1 of 2 Vice-Presidents, which comes with a place on the influentia

Courtesy: AP/RickRycroft Australia continues to be a global leader in digital sovereignty! Recently, their government proposed a 2.25% tax on Meta, Google & TikTok, to fund local news. That tax would be reduced if platforms agree to pay publishers directly for their intellectual property. “We think that investment in journalism is critical to a healthy democracy,” said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The new digital tax would raise between 200-250 million Australian dolla

Courtesy: senatorcardozo.ca The Honourable Andrew Cardozo and Howard Law have co-authored a new report on making Canadian news media sustainable. Senator Cardozo was appointed to the senate in 2022 and is a member of the Progressive Senate Group. Howard Law is the former Unifor Media Director and the author of mediapolicy.ca. The report stresses that Canada’s patchwork of news funding measures have become a de facto permanent pillar of media policy and now requires a more c

Courtesy: Getty Images Unifor and Media Action Plan condemn the killing of journalist Amal Khalil in Lebanon on April 22nd. According to the Associated Press, Khalil and her colleague Zeinab Faraj were travelling in southern Lebanon when an Israeli drone strike hit a vehicle in front of them. Khalil and Faraj took shelter in a nearby house, which was later hit by another airstrike. The report says Khalil was trapped under the rubble for at least 6 hours, as Israeli Defense

Courtesy: Melanie D’Arrigo In the 15 months of Donald Trump’s second presidency, American media has undergone a typical decade’s worth of change. There have been extraordinary levels of censorship, unregulated expansion of newsroom AI, and consolidation of media platforms. All three issues are existential threats to the free press and democracy itself, but the concentration of media ownership is the common thread. As seen in the above graphic, almost the entirety of Ameri